More information about all the murder mysteries described below can be found on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, unlike the play scripts, we display 'tasters' instead of the entire contents because many groups run these competitively, and would not want their audiences to be
able to find out whodunnit in advance!
Prices and licensing arrangements can be found on the detailed pages or by clicking on the "Price" links.
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Nightmare at Nightschool by Jane Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 17. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 15 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery which could be used at a private party (with guests taking roles) or performed to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | A pre-Christmas party for an evening class becomes hazardous when the lights go out on the entrance steps. The ladies of the class arrive and seem safe, but when the caretaker fixes the fault, a body is discovered... |
Price | Script pack: £24.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £26.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Pass the Poison by Jenny Gilbert |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 40 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | The village hall party to celebrate the retirement of Betty Blocker is interrupted by the untimely death of one of the guests! |
Price | Script pack: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £24.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £12.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Christmas on Croma Isle by Jane Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 10 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery which could be used at a private party (with guests taking roles) or performed to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | The owner of a small, remote guesthouse and her guests meet on Christmas Eve - a gathering at which their tangled relationships come unravelled. |
Price | Script pack: £23.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Media Murder by Really Horrid Productions |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Max and Maggie Burdock, successful media tycoons, have invited the great and the good of the media world for the launch of their new channel. The launch should be a great occasion but as Max unveils details of a secretive hostile takeover, tempers flair and the guests are soon each others’ throats. Eventually two are murdered! |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Raising the Dead by Alexi Stonehouse |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | The audience are (supposedly) guests at a séance, however a murder amongst the VIPs (the cast) stalls the proceedings. The cast mingle with the audience, revealing information under audience interrogation. But can the audience identify the murderer? |
Price | Script pack: £19.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £48.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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A Grand Design for Murder by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Rich Pikkins is a former professional burglar who made a great deal of money from his crimes. He used much of it to have his dream home built, and he and his partner have invited two friends to join them for an informal housewarming. But danger arises when uninvited guests arrive. |
Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Getting Away With It by Richard Adams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | DCI Ben Cleveleys' last case - the investigation of a murder - is played-out against a background of domestic and working difficulties. That's normal. The big surprise is another murder. |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Strictly Murder by Lesley Gunn |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | At a dance championship, the local TV station interviews the finalists and uncovers squabbles over sequins, frenzies over feathers, and a tussle with the tango, but nobody would ever have thought it would end in a murder on the dance floor! |
Price | Script pack: £22.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £38.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Murder on the Home Front by Andrew Hull |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 45 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | A fundraising event during the second world war is interrupted by a murder. Suspicion falls on the members of the organising committee. It's up to the audience to find out the real villain. |
Price | Script pack: £25.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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A Silent but Deadly Auction by E. Scott Icenhower |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 5 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | An attorney is running a silent auction to dispose of some of the effects of the late businessman, Jacob Thorbridge, in the presence of some of his colleagues. A detective arrives to announce that Thornbridge was murdered. Can the audience work out whodunnit? |
Price | Script pack: £19.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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